Greenlandic Masks

A book from
Rhodos International
Science and Art
Publishers







Grønlandske Masker/Greenlandic Masks
Author: Ib Geertsen
Photography by: Ruben Blædel et.al.

The text is in English and Danish.






The book contains more than 40 colour plates and 120 black&white. Most of the illustrations are new photographs of non-published material in high quality reproduction. The 200 pages are printed on fine art paper and exclusively bound.


Greenlandic Masks is published and sold outside Greenland by:

RHODOS International Science and Art Publishers
Niels Brocks Gaard
Strandgade 36
DK-1401 Copenhagen K
Denmark

Phone: +45 31 54 30 20
Fax: +45 32 95 47 42
E-mail: rhodos1@inet.uni-c.dk





About the book:
Through the intense image of masks, a people's sociocultural conception of itself is portrayed - the spirits of its ancestors; the myths, the nature, light and darkness proffer; and the patterns preserved by life and particularly by the conditions of survival in a grand but harsh natural world.

The Greenlandic masks fit into this large cultural context and have been an element in the older cultic customs that have now perished. This book seeks to decipt the masks of west and east Greenland from the end of the last century to our time.

The masks that are shown in the book have all been selected for their artistic quality, their impact, and the imagination with which they have been made.

About the author:
Ib Geertsen is represented in his capacity as sculptor ans artist at just about every Danish Art Museum and is well known also from a number of exhibitions of large paintings, exploring colour and space.

Combined with his prolific life as an artist he has throughout most of his life had a passion for Greenlandic art. Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen asked him to consult on the exhibition "The Greenlander, Prints and Drawings from Past Times" and he wrote the introductory book "Greenlanders" for them.

Greenlandic Masks has, however, always had his special interest and it is for instance due to Geertsen's efforts that a particularly excellent collection has unearthed from storages of Musée de L'Homme in Paris. These masks are also included in this book.





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